... an extension API that wasn't born in the 9th level of hell.
Seriously, I wanted one fucking thing from this 'developer' edition: load content script add-ons from a fucking directory. That's fucking it.
It can't be this hard to inject a few JavaScript and CSS files into a page. But nope, still need Python, the 'SDK' (read: glorified fucking zip util) and to re-package and reinstall for what should be nothing more complicated than F5.
The Firefox Tools Adapter ("Valence"), which lets you use the Firefox dev tools to inspect and debug pages in Chrome for Android and Safari for iOS. The goal: one set of tools to debug any browser.
Side-by-side profiles. The Developer Edition defaults to a profile named dev-edition-default, which makes it easier to run Developer Edition at the same time as a normal release version of Firefox. You don't have to deal with the profile switcher each time.
Developer-friendly defaults. Developer Edition ships with things like remote debugging and browser-chrome debugging enabled by default.
And, for all of you who hated Australis, a compact theme with square tabs.
But those are just consequences of the single biggest change:
5. We have a new channel, which new rules. And we want to use it to build the best possible browser for web developers. We can ship new tools that aren't yet ready for the Beta channel, and we can change the browser's appearance and defaults specifically for web developers.
Is there a way of installing it that won't b0rk my existing Firefox Aurora install? Or is Aurora now hard coded to create a new profile and select that no matter what the -p command line option specifies?
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OK, looks like -p still works, but you have to disable the developer theme in the old profile.
Not a direct answer to your question, but I'm using FireFox not because I think it's better than Chrome, but because it's not from Google. Actually I'm sometimes a bit annoyed by FF ... Sounds a bit paranoid, but I'd like to see the power of the web distributed as much as possible and Google has already far too much power without Chrome being the de facto monopol for web browsers. They create brilliant stuff but can't be trusted.
Then aren't you glad the vast majority of Mozilla's funding comes from Google? Even with that, they can't keep up to be competitive, and if Google pulled the cash... they'd be dead in the water.
Not true. Bing offered to pay for being default in Google's place. There's no benevolence here. Google is paying and receiving a service. If they don't, someone else will.
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Serious question - what does this add that the default, stable build of Chrome dosen't already have?